May 7, 2009

May 4, 2009

This past weekend I found myself in two different conversations with acquaintances about Eugene Chadbourne. The first conversation, with a mandolin musician who does improv with Chadbourne (who also discounted the price of my viola* by over 200$ because I mentioned I like Chadbourne). The second was with a daily patron of Tate Street Coffee (large coffee to-go, borrows a pen to do crossword in local paper). The reason I post is because both conversations highlighted the sad fact that not many people in Greensboro, or the Triad area in general, know about this amazingly unique musician. Starting with the electric rake, plumbers, the list goes on and on, to the mind-capturing lyrics (everything from war to love to pigs to flowers….), this man deserves a huge following. I have found more of his records in other states (Michigan and Colorado) than in North Carolina. Silly!

Anyways, Mr. Chadbourne is playing this weekend on FRIDAY and SATURDAY night at The Maya Art Gallery on Tate St. in Greensboro, NC. (May 8th and 9th). I couldn’t think of any excuse to not show up to one of these evenings!

* documentation of viola sold to me. documentation that I love this instrument more than anything else I own (over Macy). documentation of my entire weekend.